Feather holder

Museum number:
2-5204a
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Feather holder. Tube made of dog leg bone; plate of holder is made from shoulder blade or large rib of a buffalo or elk.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Feather holder, accession number 2-5204a, described as Feather holder. Tube made of dog leg bone; plate of holder is made from shoulder blade or large rib of a buffalo or elk.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Feather holder, accession number 2-5204a, described as Feather holder. Tube made of dog leg bone; plate of holder is made from shoulder blade or large rib of a buffalo or elk.

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